240: The End of the Sea Spirit Battle

Under the heavy blow of the Blue Whale Hammer, Mumen Genichi's death was no longer in doubt.

As his head was smashed, his body exploded into a large cloud of viscous black smoke.

Floating in the air within the black smoke was a fist-sized monster crystal that seemed to be composed of countless facets.

This crystal was not diamond-shaped like other monster crystals, but rather an irregular polyhedron.

Even the monster crystals of the other four organs were only diamond-shaped.

This monster crystal had likely surpassed the other four organs, reaching the C-rank level.

Mumen Genichi's power was indeed far beyond the other four organs.

Shui Yuqianxi, gasping for air, drew a blank card and absorbed the monster crystal.

[C-rank monster killed, Light Energy points +500]

The card then displayed the image of Mumen Genichi in his monster form.

With Mumen Genichi thoroughly defeated, the core of his Monster Power and monster form had been sealed into the card.

Only then did Shui Yuqianxi feel truly relieved.

As she let out a sigh of relief, her body could no longer hold up.

[Rain World] deactivated in an instant, and she returned once again to that enclosed space.

The armor also changed accordingly.

[Fire Finch Armor], [Light Armor], and [White Dragon C] all reverted to their card forms, popping out of the sea spirit summoner one by one.

The sea spirit summoner also seemed to have endured an overloaded power, becoming dim and lifeless, with white smoke rising from the card slot.

The armor downgraded from [Sea Spirit King] to [Sea Spirit], and various sea beasts darted out from the armor, reverting into cards and returning to the Sea Spirit Record.

The withdrawal of such a vast amount of power caused Shui Yuqianxi's body to go limp, and she collapsed directly onto the ground.

The armor also fully deactivated.

With her stamina completely exhausted and her body severely injured, perhaps any monster appearing right now could easily take Shui Yuqianxi's head.

It was a pity that Mumen Genichi hadn't sent a "low health, hurry up" message on the public voice channel before he died.

"It's... it's not the time to pass out yet."

Shui Yuqianxi struggled to maintain consciousness.

Even though excruciating pain radiated throughout her entire body, and her kidneys felt as if they were being hammered, her head was also spinning.

Deep within her bone marrow, the Water Bloodline she had just obtained also felt sore due to severe exhaustion.

Driving the power of so many cards simultaneously, even though the secondary armor [Sea Spirit King] had the ability to incorporate all rivers, this action was still too reckless.

If not for her vitality and physique, which surpassed that of an ordinary Summoner, she would likely have been blown apart by the energy before she even had a chance to drive it.

Yet even so, the various powers flooding her body had left her with serious sequelae.

If it were any other Armor Summoner, these sequelae would undoubtedly be irreversible.

They might lose the physical fitness required to summon armor, effectively forcing them into retirement.

But if it were the Water Armor, it might be possible to reverse these sequelae.

However, Shui Yuqianxi clearly hadn't thought that far ahead at the time, and even now, she didn't care at all about what would happen to her body in the future.

Straining to prop herself up with her hands, Shui Yuqianxi fumbled for a red card storage device.

This card storage device was none other than Kajiya Itten's.

Because the situation was urgent at the time, she had taken all of Kajiya Itten's cards along with the storage device.

With blood-stained fingers, she drew a card from the storage device.

[Potion F] [Equipment Upgrade E]!

She struggled to insert the card into the sea spirit summoner, but the sea spirit summoner, emitting white smoke, showed no reaction at all.

"The load was too great, is it broken?"

"Cough, cough!"

Shui Yuqianxi couldn't help but cough up another mouthful of blood.

Both the sea spirit summoner and the Firebird Summoner were Summoners separated from the main unit.

Their quality was naturally inferior to the basic Summoner that served as the main unit.

Under conditions where the Summoner's body did not meet the requirements, driving so much power meant the Summoner had also borne a tremendous load that it shouldn't have had to bear for the Summoner.

The soul that Lin Ti had separated to serve as the core had become riddled with holes.

The Summoner itself had also been damaged.

Although Lin Ti's soul was immortal, the damage it sustained would all require time to heal.

Shui Yuqianxi dropped the sea spirit summoner, crawled up from the ground, and swaying, found the basic Summoner that had been knocked away during the previous battle.

She struggled to pick up the basic Summoner; just moving and bending over caused her enough pain to nearly make her pass out.

Picking up the Summoner and pressing it to her waist, the Summoner immediately glowed with a faint light.

"Fortunately, this one isn't broken and can still be used."

Shui Yuqianxi still had some reaction; after the sea spirit summoner was separated, the basic Summoner could no longer be used.

Now it appeared she still had usage permissions for the basic Summoner.

[Potion F] [Equipment Upgrade E]!

Click, click!

[Potion E]!

As the two cards were inserted into the Summoner, a vial of potion condensed in her hand.

Shui Yuqianxi did not use the potion on herself.

She was still alive.

What she needed to do now was seize the time to see if she could save the other two.

If it were a physical form, with the head severed and so much time having passed, there would absolutely be no possibility of resurrection.

But...

Both Kajiya Itten and Mumen Se had had their necks severed after undergoing Wood Transformation.

Under those circumstances, the cuts hadn't left any blood, and the flesh wouldn't lose its vitality.

Perhaps... perhaps there was a chance to heal them.

As for whether her own body would receive timely treatment, Shui Yuqianxi didn't think much about it.

She struggled toward Mumen Se, who was closest to her, and aligned the severed neck.

She wanted to inject the potion.

But she discovered that the flesh and blood vessels had completely undergone Wood Transformation, and the potion could not be injected at all.

"It won't work..."

"Then I'll just have to try the Jellyfish."

Since the [Potion] couldn't take effect, Shui Yuqianxi rolled up her sleeve and injected the [Potion] into her veins.

Her bodily injuries stabilized, the pain subsided, and it was replaced by an immense sense of weakness.

She forced herself to perk up, summoned the Sea Spirit Record, and drew [Jellyfish M].

Then, she inserted it into the Summoner at her waist, summoning a section of Jellyfish arm armor to cover her right arm.

"Jellyfish Punch!"

Perhaps it was because the principle of Mumen Genichi's Wood Transformation was to convert organisms into plants, rather than simple woodification.

And the Sea Spirit Record, following the upgrade of the armor, had received an overall improvement, strengthening the power of the Sea Spirit.

The severed neck of Mumen Se was actually slowly growing back together under the effect of [Jellyfish M].

The joy in Shui Yuqianxi's heart was written all over her pale face.

Regardless of the severe strain that driving the card placed on her already exhausted body, she maintained [Jellyfish M], striving to heal Mumen Se's severed neck.

Just in case, she got up and dragged Kajiya Itten's body over as well.

She pieced the neck together and repeated the same trick.